Brussels Agreement

BELGRADE - Serbia's European Integration Minister Tanja Miscevic met on Tuesday in Belgrade with a delegation of the Polish parliamentary committee on EU affairs, headed by Chairman Kacper Plazynski, to discuss Serbia's main reform challenges on the path to EU membership, bilateral cooperation with Poland and the country's support to the EU integration process.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija Milovan Drecun said on Wednesday a destabilisation of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue was aimed at pressuring Serbia into recognising the false state of "Kosovo" and into giving up on a Community of Serb Municipalities as defined by the Brussels Agreement.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with Austrian federal Minister for the EU and the Constitution Karoline Edtstadler on Monday to discuss Serbia's EU integration and bilateral and economic cooperation.

The delegation from Belgrade, led by the director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petkovi, traveled to Brussels, where a new round of dialogue with Pristina awaits them today.

BRUSSELS - The EU special representative for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak says a draft statute of the Community of Serb Municipalities, presented by a management team at a May 2 meeting in Brussels, is not final, but that it is "an important starting point for the upcoming discussions on the Chief Negotiators' level."

MOSTAR - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said she had no expectations from Tuesday's meeting between Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Pristina's PM Albin Kurti in Brussels.

Speaking to reporters in Mostar, Brnabic said she not only saw no intent in Pristina to implement agreements reached ten years ago, but believed that Pristina was purposely violating the Brussels Agreement.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic told the UN Security Council on Thursday the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue was in a very complex, politically significant and perhaps decisive moment, and that UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres's report on the work of UNMIK in Kosovo-Metohija partially demonstrated that an atmosphere of fear, uncertainty and pressure on Serbs and other non-

'It is a critical question. We support the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina under the mediation of the EU, we appreciate the mediation efforts of Josep Borrell and Miroslav Lajak,'' he said and added that the so-called Kosovo and Serbia took a crucial step by signing the Brussels Agreement.

Tonight in New York, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will discuss the new, six-month report of UN Secretary General Antnio Guterres on the work of the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).
At the session chaired by Russia, from 21:00 CET, both Serbia and Kosovo will be represented by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Ivica Dacic and Donika Grvalla-Schwarz.

In Kosovo, extraordinary local elections will be held on 23 April 2023 in four predominantly Serb municipalities in the north of Kosovo (Severna Mitrovica, Leposavić, Zubin Potok and Zvečan) to elect the municipal mayors as well as councilors for the municipal councils in Leposavić and Zvečan.